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School budget hearing not all grim.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 29-APR-03 		Format: Online - approximately 800 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: School budget hearing not all grim.(Schools)(The Eugene district factors in job cuts and reserve hits, but also a significantly smaller shortfall in funding)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Anne Williams The Register-Guard

In a welcome deviation from the norm, there was some good news for the Eugene School District's budget committee and its audience Monday.

For starters, the district's beloved 55-year-old radio station, KRVM, will be on the air next year, though it will have to support itself entirely through underwriting, donations and grants.

And thanks to a whopper of a math mistake, the district isn't expecting as large a deficit in the next biennium as once feared. The projected $8.4 million gap is more like $6.5 million, thanks to a correction in the district's calculation of the per-pupil dollars for the 2004-05 school year.

There were even hopeful words about the Public Employees Retirement System...

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